>>1217042Lightning storms can act weird in hilly areas.
I live at a little compound of cabins in central Maine for 2 months every summer. It's been in my family for a couple generations and all the cousin families alternate 2 weeks for summer vacation. We have a phone line, besides that completely off the grid, no cell, we have limited solar and wind, our water is pumped and filtered from the lake, refrigerators and ovens run off propane (wood stoves to)that is brought in over the lake in the winter. On a small peninsula on a lake in the valley of 3 mountains. About 2 hour hike from the AT. And 2 gates and 45 minutes of mostly dirt logging roads to the nearest small town.
Anyways, we get odd storms regularly. Depending on what direction they come from, sometimes we hear an odd distorted thunder all day or night with not a cloud in sight. Other times we will see lightning or flashes for hours with no sound. Sometimes it will be perfectly sunny and with in minuets the wind will come up to a howl and the rain comes across the lake in a near perfect wall (like pic related), causing us to run around closing windows and covering hammocks. The mountains act like a funnel for the wind at times, one side of the lake will be calm, our side will have 50mph gust. I've seen quite a few... idk what to call them, like large dust devils but on the lake, one ripped my sail once.
And between those long ominous loon calls, coyote calls, and the childhood stories of wolves, those dead quiet pitch black nights can get spooky.
